Card display apparatus

Abstract

A card display apparatus for securely loading, maintaining, removing, and displaying a game or collector card. The apparatus includes a housing having an inner space configured to contain at least one card. The inner space of the housing has a width that is substantially equal to the uniform width of a card, with or without a protective cover.

1 . A card display comprising: a housing having a rear wall positioned substantially parallel to a front wall with two opposite side walls substantially y parallel to one another extending at least between the front wall and the rear wall to join same respectively, said side walls being spaced apart from one another the approximate width of a card, a bottom wall enclosed between said front wall, said rear wall, and said side walls; said front, rear, side, and bottom walls collectively forming a substantially rectangular displaying region, with the rear walls of the interior forming a right angle therebetween one another, so as to be capable of containing a card; said front wall being lower than the uniform height of said card; wherein the width and the height of the housing are configured to enable access to said card at both the front and rear of the housing. 
     
     
         2 . The card display of  claim 1 , wherein each said wall is transparent. 
     
     
         3 . The card display of  claim 1 , wherein an angle between said rear wall and a tabletop ranges from about forty (40°) degrees to about ninety (90°) degrees. 
     
     
         4 . The card display of  claim 1 , wherein each side wall of said housing having a shaped selected from the group consisting of: square, rectangular, parallelogram, trapezoid or round. 
     
     
         5 . The card display of  claim 1 , wherein the front wall and said rear wall are of substantially the same height. 
     
     
         7 . The card display of  claim 1  including an adapter insert having a height, width and depth, capable of being juxtaposed to one or more of said bottom, side, front and rear walls, respectively, to convert the dimensions of the housing to, in turn, accommodate decks of varying height, width and depth. 
     
     
         8 . The card display according to  claim 1  in which one or more of said front side and rear walls of said housing includes a notation region for displaying promotional information. 
     
     
         9 . The card display according to  claim 1 , wherein the angle between said rear wall and said tabletop is less than 90 degrees, said bottom wall having a tapered thickness between the bottom wall and the rear wall. 
     
     
         10 . The card display according to  claim 1  include a base extending between said side walls. 
     
     
         11 . The card display according to  claim 10  including a non-slip material attached to the base. 
     
     
         12 . The card display according to  claim 1  in which one or more of side walls of said housing includes a notation region for displaying promotional information. 
     
     
         13 . The card display according to  claim 1 , wherein each said wall is transparent and said base wall is opaque. 
     
     
         14 . The card display according to  claim 1 , wherein said side walls are spaced apart from one another the approximate width of a card placed within a protective cover. 
     
     
         15 . The card display according to  claim 1 , wherein at least one said wall is opaque.